Word: tested
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...study, carried out by researchers at Harvard, Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital and St. Louis's Washington University, scanned test subjects under two different learning conditions...
...have test-tube babies, surrogacy, egg and sperm donation, cloning and now sex selection, as described in the report that a fertility center can offer couples an 85% chance of having a girl [MEDICINE, Sept. 21]. Congratulations to scientists everywhere who have finally managed to lower the status of children in our society to that of a possession--like a cheap pair of shoes. JEAN A. STEUER Dubuque, Iowa...
...earth will be over; the younger man, Crown Prince El-Hassan bin Talal, because he will inevitably be compared with his suave, preternaturally charming brother, because he will have lost not just his sibling but his mentor and closest friend, because succeeding as King of Jordan will become a test of the national unity and identity that is virtually synonymous with his brother, the man who built modern Jordan during 46 years on the throne. Most difficult of all, it will mean that Hassan must rule without the kind of utterly trustworthy, self-abnegating second-in-command he has been...
Kristen, which is not her real name, is visibly distraught. She sits meekly and unhappily before her doctor and her genetic counselor, as though a world of trouble had just descended upon her frail shoulders. And in fact it has. A Duke-administered genetic test has revealed she has an extremely high risk of having a recurrence of the breast cancer she had three years before. The test has shown that a gene mutation is likely to run in her family. Kristen, who is in her 40s, is here to talk about what that means and what she must...
...feeling a lot of anxiety," she says glumly. "I'm not really sure I want to hear those numbers yet." Although she is deeply disturbed by the test results, her case nonetheless shows how Duke is able to move its cutting-edge research quickly into the realm of patient care. Kristen's gene mutation was diagnosed in a Duke laboratory run by Andrew Futreal, a researcher who had a hand in the discovery of one breast cancer-susceptibility gene--known as BRCA1--and who co-discovered a second, BRCA2. Her doctor is Dirk Iglehart, a surgeon who also runs...